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Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century

Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century explores how exceptional instructors are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students’ curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.

This documentary explores how exceptional instructors are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students’ curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.

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Nichole Pinkard, founder of the Chicago’s Digital Youth Network, connects the dots between digital afterschool programs and their potential relationship to in-school practices. Students on Chicago’s South Side gain media literacy, social networking skills, and self-efficacy in a decade-old pioneering multimedia program.

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John Seely Brown, Co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge and Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California, describes the importance of play and collaboration in our constantly changing world.

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Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist at the University of California at Irvine, describes how new media practices are transforming the ways that young people interact, play, collaborate, and learn outside of school.

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Henry Jenkins, a leading media scholar at the University of Southern California, explains digital media's role in creating greater opportunities for creativity, civic engagement, and political participation.

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Diana Rhoten, Program Director of Digital Media and Learning at the Social Science Research Center, describes how digital media can engage young people in informal learning contexts such as museums and libraries.

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This documentary explores how exceptional instructors are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students’ curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.